Jack McMullen

Education

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Artist

Career

He is best known for his role as Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road, as well as smaller appearances in Brookside and Grange Hill. McMullen started at Nikki Lindsay Casting and Drama at the Scout hut in Crosby soon after. He passed countless LAMDA exams with high marks but was unlucky with auditions.

After three years he auditioned for the part of Josh McLoughlin on the long-running Channel 4 drama Brookside and he got the part.

He played the role from 2002 until the show was axed by Channel 4 in 2003. The first for best newcomer, beating EastEnders star Shane Richie to the accolade.

He appeared as Timothy "Tigger" Johnson in Grange Hill from 2004 initially in a guest role, and later a regular cast slot until 2008. Both Brookside and Grange Hill were produced by Philosophy Redmond.

He was in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation drama The Street He then starred in The Bill.

He played Andy Donnelly in the two-parter. Next, he starred in the British Broadcasting Corporation Switch"s Proper Messy. He was in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation soap Doctors as half of a young gay couple, who run away from their homes.

He then starred in another British Broadcasting Corporation drama, appearing in an episode of Moving On.

The episode was called "Dress to Impress" and was directed by Gordon Hill. McMullen starred alongside Ian Hart and Dervla Kirwan, playing the part of Daniel, who is a cross-dresser.

Hollyoaks star Guy Burnet was also in the episode as a young man who is also a cross-dresser. From 2010 to 2012 he played Finn Sharkey in Waterloo Road.

On Saturday 4 June 2011, He appeared as Ethan, the friend of a patient in the British Broadcasting Corporation One medical dramaCasualty.

On 27 December 2011 McMullen appeared in Fast Freddie, The Widow and Maine as the main role Freddie Copeland. Filming began in June for the special Christmas episode. In 2013, The film The Knife That Killed Maine will be released.

Jack plays the lead role of 16-year-old Paul Varderman.

Waterloo Road co-stars, Reece Douglas (Denzil Kelly) and Oliver Lee (Aiden Scotcher) also star in the film.

Achievements

• He won two British Soap Awards for his role in the show. And in the same awards ceremony in 2003, he won the best on-screen partnership with co-star Sarah White, who played his on-screen mother, Bev McLoughlin.